Successful indeed. My last 3 runs have been great. Two more runs to go and I will be a C25K graduate also. Right behind you Bayley. Hey, you posted this under 10K. Does that mean we are not Newbie's anymore? Woo Hoo!!!!

Denise, Marcy, and Laura, hope you find us soon and looking forward to hearing about the 1/2 Marathon Denise. I love Lake Placid. I'm so jealous. Whiteface Mountain is calling my name. :)

Thanks for the thread Bayley. I thought about starting it a few days ago, just to give people time to decide if they wanted to join us, but I like it in the new forum. We'll see how active the traffic is here. If it's not busy, at least we have our little team.

Good luck tomorrow. I hope I can get out there in the morning and do W9D2.

We love you Marcy!!! You are the honorary member of this thread for now because we know you'd be right here with us if you could! Soon enough you will be legit...lol! I can't wait for your heel to feel better. Any changes? Have you seen another dr. yet?

My legs are STILL super sore today...not sure about tonight's run. I may still try to push through it after downing a few advil :-)

Bayley, thanks for the new home! I hoping we see lots of traffic here.

I can't believe I am saying this, but I AM A HALF MARATHON FINISHER!!!! Yesterday when we drove up to pick up our race bibs/packet, I was really getting cold feet. I kept asking Mr. Siber if we'd bitten off more than we could chew. Not that I'm superstitious, but my bib number was 1313! OH NO!!! 2600 people had signed up for this party, and being in the olympic village meant they weren't slackers. LOL We decided to go!

We were off to bed early last night, but severe thunderstorms woke up repeatedly. Up at 5:00 for an oatmeal breakfast, on the road at 6:00, and were at the race start at 7:15. What a massive group. The mass start was so much fun. All the marathon and have marathon runners started together. What a hoot! We knew we wouldn't be running the whole thing so we started near the back so as not to be trampled...LOL The music started and the gun sounded at 8:00! There was no looking back now.

The sky was cloudy, but there was no rain. The temp was about 60 degrees. We couldn't have asked for better weather. As we started our slow jog, we were actually passing lots of people. I was shocked. We walked uphills and ran downhill and flats. We estimated that we ran at least 8 of the 13.1 miles! There were drink/snack stations every mile so we made sure to stay hydrated. The scenery was amazing, the people were fun, and we just kept putting one foot in front of the other. Our goal was to finish in 4 hours, but I was secretly hoping for 3 1/2. Well, we crossed the finish at 2:48:06!!! I have my medal and an amazing sense of accomplishment! When I started C25K on April 4th, I struggled with running for 60 seconds, and now (did I mention,) I AM A HALF MARATHON FINISHER!...lol

My legs will definitely appreciate a rest day tomorrow ( and maybe even Tuesday), but I'll be ready for B210K by mid week. We have signed up for 3 more 5Ks in the next few weeks, and we are very excited!

Congrats on the 1/2 Marathon Denise. I hope to be right there with you eventually. I see you are doing the Massena 5K. Make sure you think of me as you trot around the town where I grew up. Do you know the route? Maybe you will run past my old house........ LOL. And if you see Alicia again on her Kangoos, tell her I said Hi. I haven't been back to Massena since 2002. Holy Cow, has it really been 9 year? Wow, how time flies.

Today is another rest day for me. After the 3 days in a row, I decided to take the whole weekend off. I will do W9D2 and D3 Monday and Tuesday at work, and will be ready for the Bridge by Wednesday or Thursday.

Ok, so the weather changed for the better tonight, and conditions for running improved. The clouds came out and the wind started blowing and I knew the rain was on the way. But I thought I could get an outdoors run in before the rain started. I was wrong, but it wasn't too bad. I got to about 27 minutes when it started to sprinkle. It actually felt really good. It kept sprinkling lightly for the rest of my run and for my entire warm down walk. I actually walked about 8 minutes because I wasn't quite back to the apartment yet. But as soon as I got under the awning of the building, the bottom dropped out and the thunder started rolling, so at least I got out of it before that started. W9D2 done, and I finally got to run outside again. Woohoo!!!!

Holy Cow, Denise. That is GREAT!!! You must be so proud. I finished W9D1 yesterday and will do day 2 tomorrow, then day 3 on Wednesday. I think I will rest two days before starting B210K next Saturday. My toe is behaving but it still gets "angry" from time to time and I'm going to really do the deep water running on the off days. With all of my foot issues in the past, I'm still going realllllly slow because I reallllllly don't want to get hurt. I'm still shooting for the July 4th 5K close by but will keep on plugging along.

You guys up the speed, I'll bring up the rear.

Laura, who didn't run today, but did wash and dry 5 dogs....so that's go to be worth something

Whooooohooooo Denise!!! *Doing my best Backflip**** That is great!! Wow on the time!! You must have turned on the Turbo jets! Keep Trekkin!!!

Sounds like we are a bit of the walking wounded, with me and you Laura with the "angry toe"... LOL.. maybe if we took the parts that worked from both of us, we could share feet.. LOL.. or maybe something like that..

Laura, I've been researching deep water running, and I think I'm going to start next Wednesday... my gym has the belts, and I'm going to give it a go.. Any tips you can give me? I'm interested in anything that will help me keep moving. And OMyGoodness,, washing and drying 5 dogs does count for something,, if they are anything like our 2,, you sure got a workout!! But I betcha your dogs look and smell beautiful!!

Went running tonight, and ran/walked for 40 minutes. We upped the speed quite a bit so we had to keep taking mini-walking breaks. We kept the breaks under 2 mins so that was pretty good. Hopefully I will start feeling more comfortable with the faster pace very soon! My legs are still sore, but they felt sorta numb during the run (prob due to going fast).

Denise--AWESOME!!!!! Great, great job!! That sounds like fun...and I told ya so on the running mileage!! I knew you'd be able to run more than 4 miles of it! Sounds like you're not going to have much trouble with B210k!

Simon--Sometimes a light drizzle really does feel nice while running :-) Glad you got to get back to the outdoors for a run today!

Marcy--Let us know how the running goes...I really don't know anything about deep water running.

Laura--I don't have an angry toe, but I have gotten more first "black toenail"...I told my boyfriend that this makes me an official runner now. I had a weird blister thing going on underneath a toenail for a few weeks and now it seems to be a little loose. I think it might fall off, but I hear this is normal for runners. It better not turn into an angry toe :-) And, yes, washing dogs is a workout!!!

It doesn't look like this 10K forum is very active. The next active thread besides our new one hasn't recieved a comment in 2 weeks. Maybe we should stick to the Newbie Cafe, just so we get some interaction with others? What do you think? Or I can post a link on the Newbie Cafe to this one. Just a thought.

Ok...W9D2 done....it was only 71, but 98% humidity. Blech.....like running in a swamp. I was thinking that as soon as school ends tomorrow I'd be able to sleep in a bit, but not if it's this way at 5:45. Oh my.....I guess 3 days a week I have to be a morning person. On another note, my 9 year old daughter has said she wants to run so I think I'm going to start the C25k program over with her on my off days. She'll but passing me in about 2 weeks, I think.

I think I'll have to buy a hydration belt now that runs are going to last for more than 30 minutes. I'm pretty good, but I need to give some water to the canines. Nothing like running with a few water bottles, a collapsible water bowl, two poop bags and a couple of paper towels. We are truly prepared!

Just finished W9D2, so I'll be joining you guys on Friday (although I must admit I'm not crazy about going back to intervals.) Still trying to decide how I'm going to approach this. I think after each week I'm going to throw in one 5k run before starting the next week.